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[Crazydude]

Hi,

I'm happy to report my New snake from Ron Ate its first meal with me Friday,

I got it to eat a 10g F/T Hopper mouse, I had to leave it in, me dangling it and slightly moving it scared it. I probably didn't make it look real at all. Anyway, After 20 minutes It went down the hatch. No constricting or anything.

But after about an hour he came back out and searched around, like he was looking for food, I gave another 7g mouse but he didn't eat it, I left it overnight. After a few hours there was no noticable bulge.

Anyway, Should I up to the next size? maybe find a 15g Mouse even though he didn't eat a second one? He is 138g as of today.

Also, Is there a certain point as to when to try rats?

Thanks, I'm really happy he ate F/T no problems, I belive Ron feeds live, so I'm happy it was an easy convert in that case.

[PyMama]

Always good to hear when they eat both live and FT ....
Good going!

[NickMyers03]

i would try to switch to rats as soon as you can. they are a better food source and you dont have to feed many to fill him up. a baby ball can eat a small adult mouse so yes i would say upgrade. all my hatchlings that i get start on small mice if thats what im going to feed. if not i try fuzzy rats then crawler rats at 250-300 grams. when they hit around 500 grams i move to weaned rats. when they hit 650-700 they get smalls. when they get 900+ they get larger smalls..

[Crazydude]

Then i will definitally look for rats this week, Ill check the reptile store, they usually buy in bulk instead of those small little premade packages that only have different mice sizes. But rats definitally sound better, I just wasn't sure the right time to switch, or maybe it was always on rats and I switched it to mice?

Anyway, Ill look around locally for Rats, I dont want to buy online because one snake, would cost too much alone, and would not need so many.

Thanks, I just hope he goes for F/T this week too.

[dragon2285]

i jus fed my bp that i also recently got a small mouse, and there also wasn't much of a bulge after he downed it. do i need to move up? and also how do you know when to give them more then one to eat? i'm going to be feeding once a week.

[Number 2]

I agree with Nick. I think I waited too long with my first bp to switch to rats and it has been a pain trying to get her to take them.

My youngest two (hatched last summer) are both eating small rats. One is about 300 grams, the other is around 500 grams. They take the rats no problem!

[arlynos]

I am going by how thick the widest part of the snake is. Right now a adult mouse is just the same size or a little bigger then the widest part of her. Though hoping to get her big enough for rats quick since they are better for her.